GameSir’s Swift Drive is a controller that quietly transforms how racing games feel in your hands. A small steering wheel lies in the center, attached to what the manufacturer describes as the world’s smallest direct-drive motor. This system provides true force feedback, the kind that pushes and pulls on your thumbs when the road surface changes or a car begins to skid.
Hands grip the controller as expected, but your thumbs rest on the wheel rather than the right analog stick. This wheel is about 5 cm around and has a rubberized surface that makes it simple to grip, but you can remove it and replace it with another design if you want. The wheel itself can rotate any angle you need it to, from 30 degrees for precise, twitchy control to a full 1080 degrees if you’re dealing with larger cars. The movement is recorded using a super-precise Hall effect encoder that can detect inputs with up to 65,000 different levels of resolution, preventing the irritating drift present in older designs.
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The direct-drive technology on here means there are no gears to muddle the response; the motor can provide a constant torque of about 0.2 Nm and surges up to a more apparent 0.4 Nm when needed, which is just enough to provide some resistance and road roughness in such a little device. Of course, that motor is supported by three more haptic motors to really immerse you in the game, and the triggers themselves have their own haptic feedback to make it feel like you’re experiencing actual ABS pulsing or tire slide.
The designers kept the build options on this thing very practical. Hall effect sensors monitor the joysticks, buttons, and even the small nub that handles some of your secondary inputs, such as glancing around. The rear paddles handle shifting, and the RGB illumination provides a rapid read on your RPM levels without requiring you to think about it at all. In terms of connectivity, it uses 2.4GHz WiFi for low-latency gaming, and even with the motor, haptics, and lights all turned on at the same time, the battery life is expected to last 20 to 30 hours.
According to GameSir, the Swift Drive is ideal for racing games on PC, consoles (such as the PS5), and even mobile gaming settings. The demos show that it can manage the sort of precision required to nail those apexes in a Ferrari F2004 around the Nurburgring Nordschleife in Assetto Corsa, which is far more difficult to achieve with a thumbstick.
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